Improvement in overalls



UNITE TTES SAMUEL It. KROUSE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN OVERALLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,830, dated May 4,1875; application filed March 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. Kaonsn, of San Francisco city and county,State of California, have invented an Improvement in the Manufacture ofOveralls, Blouses, and other clothing; and I do hereby declare thefollowing description and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enableany person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearlyappertains to make and use my said invention or improvement withoutfurther invention 01' experiment.

The object of my invention is to provide certain improvements in themanufacture of clothing, such as overalls, blouses, and jumpers, and allthat class of goods which are worn during manual labor, and aresubjected to heavy strain at difi'erent points. These goods are veryliable to rip and wear rapidly; and my invention consists in a novelconstruction, and the use of strengthening-pieces of peculiarconstruction at various points, so that I am enabled to counteract thegreatest strain and overcome the tendency to rip.

Referring to the accompanying drawing for a more complete explanation ofmy invention, Figure l is a view of a pair of overalls made with myimprovements. Figs. 2, 3, show the application to other garments.

A represents a pair of overalls, to which I have shown my invention asapplied. B is the band around the top, to which suspenderbuttons aresewed; and C C are various pockets. Across the tops of these pockets 1form a stay, D, which is turned down and stitched to the upper part ofthe pocket, and resembles a flap or pocket-cover, without the use of theseparate piece. The ends of this stay are carried out a short distancebeyond the edge of the pocket. running to a point, and are firmlystitched, as shown at E.

By this construction I tie together the angle or juncture re-enforces,thus re-enforcing the re-enforces themselves, and at the same timeprotect the whole line of the pocket, and avoid the necessity of theordinary pocketflap. a

in order to make a button-stay, and at the same time secure the band andpocket-opening, I make a piece, F, which is stitched with its upper endat the upper edge of the band B. The button G is sewed through thispiece, and also the band, thus preventing it from being torn out. Thestrip F extends across the lower edge of the band, which is thusfirmlysecured. From this point it is tapered and crosses the corner of thepocket-opening, being firmly stitched, and forming a stay at thiscorner.

The back'strap H is so formed that it passes along from the point ofstitching I, and its upper part beneath the lower edge of the band, asat J, and is there stitched in. From this point the strap extendsdownward and across the side or hip seam K, and the lower corner of thepocket C, thus serving as a pocket-stay and a powerful re-enforce to thehip-seam, which is thus prevented from ever ripping.

By m y construction and method of strengthening the re-enforcing piecesI succeed in resisting the greatest strains. 7

I am aware that the angles or points of juncture of pockets in pantshave been re-enforced and prevented from tearing by means of'rlvets, asshown in the patent granted to J. W. Davis, May 20, 1873; reissued March16,1875; and I am also aware that pockets of overalls have beenre-enforced by small pieces-of textile fabric sewed across the cornersof such pockets, as shown in the patent to Greenbaum, August 25, 1874,and numbered 154,473; but such means I do not claim broadly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-- l. The stay D, stitched across the pockettop toresemble a flap, and having its ends extended over and beyond thepocket-corners, to form the re-enforces E E, as and for the purposeherein described.

2. In combination with the'waistband B, the compound re-enforce or stayF, when constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

3. The back-strap H, constructed as de scribed, in combination with thewaistband B, hip-seam K, and pocket-corner, substantially as herein setforth.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal.

SAMUEL R. KROUSE. LL. s.]

Witnesses:

Gno. H. STRONG, JNo. L. BOONE.

